Farmer's Struggle

Chapter 6 Sugar Dividing
In the middle of July in the Gregorian calendar, Ju Wenqi took on a big job.

The primary school in the village was to be rebuilt, and the carpentry work was outsourced. He beat Carpenter Zhao from the same village with a lower bid and shorter working hours to get this opportunity.

The school should be completed before the school starts on September [-]st. Ju Wenqi is not only responsible for the carpentry work such as beams and door frames, but also responsible for making tables, chairs and benches. There is no idle time from morning to night.

When there was no work in the field, Zhang Yongmei gave the children to Zhang Yongli to look after, and she also came to help Ju Wenqi.

Hurry up, and finally finish the work before school starts.

Ju Wenqi is good at craftsmanship, honest in his work, and the most important thing is that it is cheap. After the completion of the primary school, many people from all over the world asked him to build furniture and build houses. Tolerate.

Diligent people never starve to death.

After the autumn harvest, the weather became colder and colder, and the carpentry work was temporarily unavailable. Ju Wenqi went to the mountains with some men in the village to do side jobs.

The so-called sideline job is to carry logs into the mountains.

In the winter, in the environment of minus [-] to [-] degrees, dozens of old men carry logs during the day and sleep on a big bunk at night. They eat radish and potatoes boiled in snow water with only a little salt. very hard.

This is not the first time for Ju Wenqi to engage in a side job. There is a big meat bun on the back of his neck, which is made by carrying wood.

Zhang Yongmei is not idle at home. Zhang Yongli goes home after the autumn harvest. She takes care of the three children and one elder in the family by herself. When the weather is good, she goes to the mountains to collect firewood. Cotton trousers.

Ju Min and Ju Jing are really sensible.The children in the village run wildly outside all day long, the river in front of the yard is frozen, and there are children skating on it every day, but the two children have never been there once, and they help take care of Ju Ling and the crazy grandma at home.

Zhang Yongmei also advised the two of them to go out and play with the children in the village more. Ju Min grabbed the tumbler and replied sullenly: "I don't like to play with them."

It's not that they don't like to play with others, but they will be bullied every time they play, and they will hear some bad words, so they simply don't play with others.

At first Zhang Yongmei didn't know about this and thought it was because her child, Ge Lengzi, didn't fit in. One day she overheard a group of children discussing sister Ju Min behind their backs, and then she realized what was going on.

Everyone in the village knew that Ju Laosan's family was poor, and Ju Laosan and his wife were afraid of whomever they visited, because they were afraid that they would open their mouths to borrow money.The children of Ju's third family went to play with other children, but whoever couldn't find anything would blame the sisters, saying that they were thieves and stole others if they didn't have it.

What do children know?In fact, the adults in the family said too much and were remembered by them, and they turned around and said it to Sister Ju Min.

Ju Jing is still young and doesn't understand much, but Ju Min understands everything. She can't explain to those people, and she doesn't like to be told all the time, so she just pulls Ju Jing not to play with others to save trouble.

Zhang Yongmei hid and cried hard, and when she faced the child again, it was as if nothing had happened.

There was a big fair in Zhuantian Township, Zhang Yongmei asked Ju Min to watch over Gu Hao's house and went to the fair early, and didn't come back until the afternoon.

She bought a lot of things. Sister Ju Min curiously looked around at the big bag she carried back. She was obviously too curious but waited for her to speak before she dared to open the bag.

Zhang Yongmei looked at the two girls distressedly, and said softly: "Open it and have a look, there are things I bought for you."

Originally, Zhang Yongmei planned to buy two sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes for the two children, as well as some nodding flower toys. Anyway, it is almost Chinese New Year, so let the children be happy in advance.

But she changed her mind as soon as she asked the price at the booth.

It's not that there is no clothes and shoes to wear, just clean and there is no need to buy new ones.The family doesn't have much money left, so every penny and dime must be spent where it should be spent, and if it can be saved, it must be saved.

Life is for yourself, there is no need to slap your face and make yourself fat just because of what others say or think.

So, I wandered around Daji several times, spending money to buy the most needed things at home, and only weighed a catty of candy for the two children.

A pound of hard candy made the two children very happy. Ju Min patted Ju Jing's little hand away, took out four candies from the bag, and tied the bag carefully and put it out of Ju Jing's reach. On the kang cabinet.

"Sister, I don't steal food", Ju Jing felt aggrieved.

Ju Min didn't believe it, and while giving her a candy, said, "You used to say you wouldn't steal my sister's milk powder!"

Ju Jing put the sugar in her mouth, and said even more aggrieved: "I will starve if I eat my sister, so I won't steal it."

Ju Min ignored her, peeled off a candy and put it in his mouth, and gave the remaining two to Zhang Yongmei and the crazy grandma.

Zhang Yongmei refused to eat, and put the candy on the top of the kang: "I don't like candy, you two eat it."

Ju Ling was originally sitting on the kang and playing tumbler, but she was not in a hurry when she saw that everyone else had something to eat, she dripped down from the corner of her mouth, and crawled out to the top of the kang to get the candy that Zhang Yongmei put down.

Seeing that the little hands were about to touch the sugar, Ju Min and Ju Jing squeezed her ankles from left to right and dragged her back.

"You're too young to eat." Ju Jing didn't care if her younger sister could understand or not, and said like a little adult, "You can only eat candy when you are my age."

Of course Ju Ling didn't understand, she couldn't eat, her mouth shrunk and she burst into tears.

Zhang Yongmei was not in the room when she went out to hold firewood and burn the kang, Ju Min bowed her head and folded the candy paper without making a sound, Ju Jing couldn't count on others and had to coax her sister herself.

Reluctantly, she spat out her candy and pinched it in her hand, and said distressedly, "I'll just give you a taste, and you won't cry after you taste it."

After finishing speaking, she squeezed the candy and rubbed it on Ju Ling's lips, and quickly stuffed the candy back into her mouth after it was soaked in sweetness.

Ju Ling licked her mouth sweetly, giggling with tears and snot and saliva all over her face.

Children's happiness is so pure and simple. In a blink of an eye, when Ju Wenqi returned home with his hard-earned money, the whole family was happy.

After everyone fell asleep at night, Zhang Yongmei and Ju Wenqi got up from the bed and counted the money by flashlight.

"I've been busy for a year, and I only saved this little money." After counting, Zhang Yongmei sighed.

Ju Wenqi smiled and said, "Okay, it's quite a lot, take your time. Let's have a good year first, and then buy a cow to farm the land. It's not a problem to just borrow Uncle Sun's cattle. The weather should be warmer." Let's start building a house, our dilapidated house has been around for too long, and the wind and snow can't hold it, I'm always worried that something will happen to you at home when I'm outside."

It is imperative to buy cattle and build a house. Zhang Yongmei will not save money in this regard even if she is worried about money.

She counted the money carefully again, not sure: "Is it enough? Just buying a cow that can directly go to the field to work will cost a lot of money, and then building a house, we probably don't have enough money for this."

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